Paul Cézanne 1904 · Aix-en-Provence
Paint in the studio
06:00–10:30
“His daily routine was, rise very early, paint in his studio from six to ten-thirty, breakfast, and go out immediately into the surrounding country to study nature until five.”
Verbatim excerpt · Émile Bernard, quoted in English by Arthur Jerome Eddy
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Cubists and Post-Impressionism
1914 · Bernard’s eyewitness recollection of his 1904 visit
Chapter II · p. 36 · Bernard’s daily-routine passage; attribution in footnote 17
Passage: Chapter II · p. 36 · Bernard’s description of the daily routine
Timing & context
The studio’s 06:00 start and 10:30 finish are explicitly stated.
Fellow painter Émile Bernard explicitly calls this Cézanne’s daily routine. The calendar follows Bernard’s recollection, quoted in Eddy’s 1914 book. Meal and return times are estimated; the pattern was not without exceptions.
The working routine Émile Bernard witnessed during his February 1904 visit. This is a recollection of repeated habits during that period, not a lifelong timetable.
Bernard’s original French recollection · Société Cezanne ↗